The inefficiency of the Italian judicial system has contributed to reduced investments, slow growth, and a difficult business environment. The enforcement of civil and commercial claims suffers from excessive delays in court proceedings, resulting in a very large number of pending cases. The Italian authorities have, over the years, taken steps to remove bottlenecks and speed up judicial procee...

We propose a probabilistic type theory in which a situation s is judged to be of a type T with probability p. In addition to basic and functional types it includes, inter alia, record types and a notion of typing based on them. The type system is intensional in that types of situations are not reduced to sets of situations. We specify the fragment of a compositional semantics in which truth con...

Background/Purpose: In the context of the European Biodiversity policy, the Green Infrastructure Strategy is one supporting tool to mitigate fragmentation, inter-alia to increase the spatial and functional connectivity between protected and unprotected areas. The Joint Research Centre has developed an integrated model to provide a macro-scale set of indices to evaluate the connectivity of the N...

A country’s suitability for entry into a currency union depends on a number of economic conditions. These include, inter alia, the intensity of trade with other potential members of the currency union, and the extent to which domestic business cycles are correlated with those of the other countries. But international trade patterns and international business cycle correlations are endogenous. T...

Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment, income, marriage, sex, health and age. Communist Party membership and political participation raise l...

Emulation has evolved into a mature digital preservation strategy providing, inter alia, functional access to a wide range of digital objects using their original creation environments. In contrast to format migration strategies a functional, emulation-based approach requires a number of additional components. These can be provided by Emulation-as-a-Service, implemented and developed as a distr...

WHEN the Council of the N.A.M.H. met in April, 1961, it debated whether, now that the Mental Health Review Tribunals were beginning to review cases, it might be profitable for some research to be undertaken to establish what happened to patients discharged by the Tribunals. The General Secretary wrote on April 24th, 1961, expressing the strong opinion of Council that 'this new procedure, which ...

This paper presents a novel semantic analysis of the English resultative construction that crucially models telicity (aspectual boundedness) in terms of the event-argument homomorphism model (Krifka, 1998, inter alia) rather than the commonly assumed result state model (Dowty, 1979). This assumption, together with recent insights on the semantics of scalar adjectives (Hay et al., to appear; Ken...

This article reflects on the phenomenon of a growing dissatisfaction and restlessness with traditional forms of worship as well as on some conceptions of the notion of liturgical renewal. It proposes that a fundamental liturgical reframing is indeed needed, grounded on the theological locus of the Christ-event. A brief description is given of the liturgical importance of this event, followed by...

October 2008 The Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Volume 33, Number 2B 453 AN APPROACH TO THE FUZZY VARIABLE STRUCTURE CONTROL OF INDUCTION MOTORS L. Barazane * University of Science and Technology Houari. Boumediene (USTHB) Faculty of Electronic & Computing BP 32, El-Alia, Bab-Ezzouar 16111, Alger, Algérie M. M. Krishan ** Al-Balq'a Applied University Engineering of Information and...